Lookup Columbia County Detention Center Inmates

Columbia County Detention Center Overview

Columbia County Detention Center, also described by the sheriff as Columbia County Detention Facility, is operated by the Columbia County Sheriff's Office. The official jail page states that the detention center and sheriff's office are located at the same facility. Sheriff Leroy Martin heads the agency, and Jail Administrator Gean Sieger oversees daily detention-center operations.

The jail is a county detention facility, not a state prison or federal institution. It houses people arrested for misdemeanor crimes, people arrested for felony crimes, and people sentenced to Arkansas Department of Correction who are still held locally. That last category is important because a person can be sentenced to ADC and still appear in county jail population reporting or local custody before transfer.

The sheriff jail page also gives a staffing picture: one jail administrator, one jail administrator assistant, four sergeants with one per shift, and nine jailers. Four full-time bailiff and transport officers move inmates to court, appointments, other detention centers, and mental-commitment matters.

Columbia County Jail Capacity

The official sheriff jail page publishes a 90-bed total capacity split between male and female housing. The listed split is up to 78 males and 12 females. Monthly sheriff transparency reports show that the daily average can approach that figure, and the sex-specific split can matter even when the total count is below the full jail capacity.

The official jail page screenshot source documents the jail capacity, population categories, and jail administrator reference.

The screenshot supports the facility-specific facts used here and distinguishes the active detention center from the historic old Columbia County Jail in Magnolia.

Find Columbia County Detention Center Inmates

Use the sheriff-linked ISOMS current inmates roster for people held in the county jail. The roster publishes inline cards with booking photos, names, age, race and sex, intake date, city, arresting department, release field, charges, and bond entries. The ISOMS jail search form accepts first name, last name, and a Released checkbox.

1. Search the current jail roster when the person may still be held at Columbia County Detention Center.
2. Use the A-Z filters, pagination, or jail search form if the full roster is too broad.
3. Check the 24-hour or 72-hour intake and release lists for recent custody changes.
4. Call the jail if the public card omits a detail such as court movement, release status, or a hold.
5. Search Arkansas DOC, VINELink, BOP, or ICE if the person is no longer in county jail custody.

The jail roster should not be treated as the court record. Filed charges, hearings, dispositions, and future events are checked through Search ARCourts and the Columbia County Circuit Clerk after the case is opened or indexed.

Columbia County Detention Center Contact

The detention center and sheriff's office share the public facility location. Use the jail number for custody questions and the business office number when the question is tied to exact citation, bond, fine, or payment information. The sheriff payment page is the source for the business-office hours below.

Visit Columbia County Detention Center

The official sheriff site did not publish a full public visitation schedule, visitor approval procedure, dress code, child-visitor rule, attorney-visit process, or video-visit vendor during research. Because those rules affect entry, call the detention center before traveling. This is especially important before bringing children, identification documents, medication, phones, bags, purses, tobacco, or other property.

Arkansas detention standards provide a statewide baseline for visitation and mail, including visitor logs, visitor searches, correspondence policy, and security limits. The local jail can still set facility-specific rules that are not posted online.

Mail and Money at Columbia County Jail

The research did not locate an official local mail format, phone vendor, video vendor, book rule, photo rule, tablet program, or commissary order limit for Columbia County Detention Center. Do not mail items or set up a service account based on a third-party listing without confirming with the jail. Published official money information is limited mainly to the sheriff online-payments page.

Booking at Columbia County Detention Center

Booking is the jail intake process after arrest. In Columbia County, the arresting agency may be the sheriff's office, Magnolia Police, Arkansas State Police, Southern Arkansas University Police, or another agency. The sheriff communications page states that the sheriff and Magnolia Police jointly operate Central Dispatch at the sheriff office, which can route public-safety calls to the proper agency.

Once booking creates a public jail record, the ISOMS card may show a photo, intake date, city, arresting department, charge text, bond amount, and release field. It does not replace the court record. After booking, the 13th Judicial District Prosecuting Attorney decides formal charges, and the court/clerk record tracks the case through arraignment, hearings, disposition, and sentencing.

Bond at Columbia County Jail

The sheriff publishes a district-court bond and fine amount page, but it is a general table, not a per-inmate release guarantee. The page warns that amounts can change at the discretion of District Judge Steve Crane and tells users to call the business office for the exact citation amount. Some matters require a mandatory court appearance and cannot be resolved through online fine payment.

Columbia County Jail Records Requests

If the online roster is not enough, existing jail booking records can be requested from the Columbia County Sheriff's Office under Arkansas FOIA, subject to exemptions and redactions. A good request identifies the person, approximate booking or arrest date, arresting agency, requested record type, and whether inspection or copies are wanted. The sheriff office can charge allowed copy costs and is not required to create a new custom record that does not already exist.

For filed court charges, certified case copies, hearing dates, and dispositions, use Search ARCourts and the Columbia County Circuit Clerk instead of the jail. For a state-prison transfer or sentenced state custody, use the Arkansas DOC inmate search. For custody notifications, use VINELink. For federal sentenced custody, use BOP. For immigration custody, use ICE ODLS.

Directions to Columbia County Detention Center

The official sheriff site gives the facility address but does not publish turn-by-turn directions, parking rules, public-transit details, lockers, ADA entry notes, or a visitor entrance map. From central Magnolia or Courthouse Square, route to Columbia Road 300 and follow local road signage to the sheriff facility. From U.S. 82 or U.S. 79 approaches, navigate into Magnolia and then to the published detention-center address.

Call ahead before driving for a visit, bond payment, fine payment, records pickup, or paperwork drop-off. Confirm parking, entrance, item, and accessibility rules with the facility because those details were not posted in the official local sources reviewed.